Jun 29, 2022 by News Staff

The BirdNET app is a free bird sound identification app for Android and iOS that includes over 3,000 bird species. Ornithologists hope this app will reduce...

Jun 13, 2022 by Natali Anderson

Humans communicate with each other through language, which enables us talk about things beyond time and space. Do non-human animals learn to associate...

May 31, 2022 by News Staff

In a paper published in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers described the signature whistles produced by six distinct geographical units of the...

Apr 19, 2022 by The Conversation

Fiona Backhouse and her colleagues from Western Sydney University, the University of Wollongong and the Australian National University have investigated...

Jan 28, 2022 by News Staff

New research led by Cornell University scientists shows that sound production appeared in the ray-finned fishes (clade Actinopterygii) circa 155 million...

Sep 7, 2021 by News Staff

An international team of scientists led by Flinders University has found evidence of prenatal auditory learning in embryos of three vocal learning species...

Aug 20, 2021 by News Staff

Babbling is a production milestone in infant speech development. Evidence for babbling in non-human mammals is scarce. In a new study, researchers from...

Jun 21, 2021 by News Staff

A team of researchers from the University of California, San Diego, the Universidad Nacional de La Plata and the Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind has...

Jun 15, 2021 by News Staff

Dendrohyrax interfluvialis lives in the wet and dry forests that lie between the two rivers in coastal regions of southeastern Ghana, southern Togo and...

Jun 14, 2021 by Natali Anderson

Ornithologists have discovered a new species of berrypecker (genus Melanocharis) in cloud forest in the Kumawa Mountains of western New Guinea (West Papua...

Jun 8, 2021 by Natali Anderson

A team of ornithologists from the American Bird Conservancy and Cornell University’s Lab of Ornithology has captured the first-ever clear images and...

Jun 4, 2021 by News Staff

In a new study published in May 2021 in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, an interdisciplinary team of researchers made an attempt to describe the specific...

May 21, 2021 by News Staff

Scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles took a closer look at vocal play signals — or what might be thought of as laughter —...

Mar 3, 2021 by News Staff

During their song and dance displays, male superb lyrebirds (Menura novaehollandiae) create an elaborate acoustic illusion of a mixed-species flock of...

Mar 2, 2021 by News Staff

Neanderthals evolved the auditory capacities to support a vocal communication system as efficient as modern human speech, according to new research led...

Jan 29, 2021 by News Staff

Naked mole-rats (Heterocephalus glaber) form some of the most cooperative groups in the animal kingdom, living in multigenerational colonies under the...

Dec 28, 2020 by News Staff

Marine biologists from the University of Oregon and the University of New Brunswick have recorded common, previously unknown, ultrasonic vocalizations...

Dec 23, 2020 by Natali Anderson

Zoologists believe they have found a previously unknown species of tree hyrax in the Taita Hills, Kenya. A female tree hyrax in Ngangao Forest, Taita Hills,...

Oct 13, 2020 by Sergio Prostak

A team of ornithologists from the United States, Colombia and Denmark has described six new cryptic species in the rufous antpitta (Grallaria rufula) complex...

Sep 8, 2020 by News Staff

The founding population of the New Guinea singing dog, a small-to-medium-sized canid thought to be extinct in the wild since the 1970s, is not, in fact,...